Bosque de Laurisilva (Wild Laurel Forest). A vestige of the forests predominant in earlier times can be found in the highlands among these magnificent laurel trees, ferns and mosses.

El Fayal is the zone for oak and beech trees as well as eucalyptus, which represent a classic example of flora introduced by man.

The extensive forests of conifers are said to be the most spectacular and beautiful in the archipelago where the Canary pine stands erect and undemanding over a dense carpet of needles, preventing the growth of other plant species.

In the extreme northeast, El Sabinar can be found or what is left of this hundred year old forest of junipers whose twisted forms have been moulded for centuries by the violence of the winds and weather.